Good beginning, then falls into usual Hollywood action stuff

Rating: 6/10 (7 April 2010)

I watched this with my family last night and we all we mesmerized by the first 20-30 minutes of the film. The "freakyness" of the world where they live was cool, and we were silent (strange for my family) while we wondered what it was all about.
Then last part of the film is thoughtless, though. It seemed to drag on and on. We all got bored with the car crashes and explosions. There were also a lot of idiosyncrasies: moments where we were wondering how they arrived at a certain point (especially without dying, which would have happened--or at least grave injury--if not Hollywood), or who people were, or why someone was doing something. That really takes away from a film. A film like this does not need to be real--that's why we go see it--but it has to make us believe that it COULD be real to a certain degree. If it starts spewing BS, then what's the point?
Oh yeah, the scene of them boxing with the xbox is stolen straight from Space Odyssey 2001...
And the product placements were excessive...we saw at least 4